Terebrantian thrips of India

Thrips abdominalis Crawford, D.L., 1910: 157.

Thrips femoralis Jones, 1912: 4.

Thrips crenatus Watson, 1922: 35.

Thrips microcephalus Priesner, 1923: 116.

Thrips (Ctenothripiella) gillettei Moulton, 1926: 126.

Stylothrips brevipalpis Karny, 1926: 206.

Paraphysopus burnsi Girault, 1927: 2.

Thrips oklahomae Watson, 1931: 342.

Microcephalothrips brevipalpis armatus Ananthakrishnan, 1956: 133.

Aureothrips marigoldae Raizada, 1966: 278.

Microcephalothrips chinensis Feng, 1998: 257.

Microcephalothrips jigonshanensis Feng, 1998: 258.

Microcephalothrips yanglinensis Feng, Zhang and Sha, 2002: 167

Female macroptera: Body brown; forewing brown. Antennae 7 segmented, III–IV each with a small, forked sensorium. Head with ocellar pair III short and anterolateral to ocellar triangle. Pronotum wider at posterior than anterior margin, 2 pairs of short posteroangular setae, 5 pairs of posteromarginal setae. Metanotum with lines forming lens like shape; median setae arise behind anterior margin. Forewing first vein with 3 distal setae, second vein with 7 setae. Abdominal tergites with triangular lobbed craspedum on posterior margins, comb on VIII with slender microtrichia arising from broad bases. Abdominal sternites without craspeda, having double rows of discal setae.

Ageratum conyzoides (Asteraceae), Arundo donax (Poaceae), Bidens biternata (Asteraceae), Callistephus chinensis (Asteraceae), Chrysanthemum sp. (Asteraceae), Dahlia sp. (Asteraceae), Emilia exserta (Asteraceae), Eupatorium adenophorum (Asteraceae), Gerbera sp. (Asteraceae), Gomphrena celosioides (Amaranthaceae), Panicum repens (Poaceae), Parthenium hysterophorus (Asteraceae), Rosa sp. (Rosaceae), Solidago sp. (Asteraceae), Tagetes erecta (Asteraceae), Tithonia diversifolia (Asteraceae), Tridax procumbens (Asteraceae), Wedelia chinensis (Asteraceae), Zinnia sp. (Asteraceae) (Bhatti, 1997; Akhtar & Azim, 2013; Tyagi & Kumar, 2014; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018; Rachana, 2020)

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kahmir, Karnataka, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Punjab, West Bengal (Bhatti, 1990; Akhtar & Azim, 2013; Tyagi & Kumar, 2014; Johnson & Varatharajan, 2018)   

Akhtar, N. and Azim, M.N., 2013. A preliminary survey of thrips (Thysanoptera) from Kashmir Himalaya. Halteres, 4: 15–18.

Ananthakrishnan, T. N., 1956, Studies on some Indian Thysanoptera III. Zool. Anz., 157: 130–139.

Bhatti, J. S., 1990, Catalogue of insects of the Order Terebrantia from the Indian Subregion. Zoology (J. Pure Appl. Zool.)., 2: 205–352.

Bhatti, J. S., 1997, Thysanoptera. In: Fauna of Delhi, State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India, Dehradun, pp. 291–324.

Crawford, D. L., 1910, Thysanoptera of Mexico and the south II. Pomona College Journal of Entomology., 2: 153–170.

Feng, J., Nan, X. and Guo, H., 1998, Two new species of Microcephalothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from China. Entomotaxonomia, 20: 257–260.

Feng, J., Zhang, J. and Sha, Z., 2002, A new species of Microcephalothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from China. Entomotaxonomia, 24: 167–169.

Girault, A. A., 1927, Some new wild animals from Queensland. Published privately. Brisbane, 1–3.

Johnson, T. and Varatharajan, R., 2018, Thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera) fauna from the Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, India. Halteres., 9: 143–150.

Jones, P. R., 1912, Some new California and Georgia Thysanoptera. Technical series, USDA Bureau of Entomology, 23: 1–24.

Karny, H., 1926, Studies on Indian Thysanoptera. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India Entomology Series, 9: 187–239.

Moulton, D., 1926, New American Thysanoptera. T. Am. Entomol. Soc., 5: 119–128.

Priesner, H., 1923, A Dampes Aegypten-Ausbeute: Thysanoptera. Entomol. Mitt., 12: 115–121.

Rachana, R. R., 2020, Systematic studies on Terebrantian thrips of Karnataka, India. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.

Raizada, 1966, Studies on some Thysanoptera from Delhi. Zool. Anz., 176: 277-290.

Tyagi, K. and Kumar, V., 2014, New records of thrips (Thysanoptera, Terebrantia, Thripidae) from Himachal Pradesh, India. Rec. Zool. Surv. India., 114
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Watson, J. R., 1922, On a collection of Thysanoptera from Rabun County, Georgia. Fla. Entomol., 6: 34–39.

Watson, J. R., 1931, A collection of Thysanoptera from western Oklahoma. Publications of the University of Oklahoma, 3 (4): 339–345.